SNAP SHOT MEMORIES
These paintings inhabit surreal and mysterious worlds, I like to explore the quiet beauty of found objects and their relationships with each other and the pictorial canvases that lay behind them. Setting up the Still life may contain a neutral coloured backdrop that is attached to the wall and placed on the table, on top of which an existing painting is placed and a photograph attached to it, this photograph often disrupts the picture plane and suggests a window into another world. The objects are then carefully placed in front, which cast shadows from a natural or spotlight light source.
I see my paintings as psychological spaces that suggest ideas of time and space, passing from one world to another.
One layer may represent a notion of reality while the next layer a memory of a place of silent contemplation.
I would like to think that the shadows suggest the passing of time and each shadow in my imagination moving continuously around the still life like the seasons moving from one position to the other.